#include <iostream>
#include <boost/xpressive/xpressive.hpp>

using namespace boost::xpressive;

int main()
{
    std::string hello( "hello world!" );

    sregex rex = sregex::compile( "(\\w+) (\\w+)!" );
    smatch what;

    if( regex_match( hello, what, rex ) )
    {
        std::cout << what[0] << '\n'; // whole match
        std::cout << what[1] << '\n'; // first capture
        std::cout << what[2] << '\n'; // second capture
    }

std::string input("This is his face");
sregex re = sregex::compile( "\\s+" );                      // find white space

// iterate over all non-white space in the input. Note the -1 below:
sregex_token_iterator begin( input.begin(), input.end(), re, -1 ), end;

// write all the words to std::cout
std::ostream_iterator< std::string > out_iter( std::cout, "\n" );
std::copy( begin, end, out_iter );


    return 0;
}

